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I installed the FriendFeed Facebook application - it worked for a while. Then it ceased to work : new entries seem not to be imported anymore and nothing from FriendFeed appears in the Facebook News Feed anymore.

I am not the only one to experience this : judging only from the wall and the forum of the FriendFeed Facebook application, there are dozen of users reporting the problem, and they are only the ones that complain - the number who experience it may be orders of magnitude higher.

FriendFeed has answered me, explaining that they are aware of the problem, and working on a fix.

FriendFeed explained me that the Facebook session key is no longer valid for some reason. By remove the FriendFeed application from Facebook, and then re-adding it, it was supposed to start updating again. But I tried that fix a couple of time and waited for a couple of days to see if any updates get through, but none did.

When commenting for the second time on an item in my home stream and both times choosing to also post it as a @reply on twitter, the second time it gets posted as a reply to myself on twitter instead of to the original twitter poster (as for the first comment).

Hello,

I entered my custom GMail address in the IM settings but i do not get the verification IM. Can you pleas check this issue? Or did I do something wrong?

Regards,
Marcel

I use Twhirl 0.8.6 on a Windows XP PC, and my default browser is Safari 3.1.2.
When I try to open an url from Twhirl, it opens a page in cache (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/...).
Of course, it works if the default browser is FireFox or Chrome.
I put the same question on Apple support.

I started feeding my FF into my Twitter account and everytime I share a link on Facebook, it posts it twice into my Twitter account. Not Good!

Here's what you should do. Have the app check and see if a comment is posted with the shared link. If there is, then post the comment and the shortened link. If not, then post the title of the shared link and the shortened link. Right now you're doing both and it's highly annoying to me and my followers.

I'm going to discontinue feeding my FF into Twitter until this is resolved. Hopefully you listen.

I import my Friendfeed to the Facebook Newsfeed. I use Friendfeed as the hub of my lifestreams, which I aggregate there and then redistribute to social sites such as Facebook. Amon my sources is the Brightkite service.

In Friendfeed, the Brightkite entries show up like :

You checked in on brightkite.com
Rue Linné, 75005 Paris

Very good.

The problem is that the same entry imported in Facebook will show up in the Newsfeed as :

Jean-Marc posted Rue Linné, 75005 Paris - Comment or View your FriendFeed ».

Baaad. A prefix such as "checked in" should be included instead of just the place name. With nothing like it, readers have no way to see that this is a check-in and not a blog post.

The body of entries in the Brightkite RSS stream mentions lines such as :

liotier checked in @ Rue Linné, 75005 Paris

So it is correct. It is actually the Friendfeed Facebook app that picks only the subject of the entry, instead of the body :

You: Rue Linné, 75005 Paris (via brightkite.com)

Which corresponds to what Facebook shows into the Newsfeed.

In summary, the problem is the compound of :
- The subject of a Friendfeed Brighkite entry not containing "checked in" as a prefix
- Friendfeed Facebook app picking only the subject of the entry.

So either :
- Alter the format of the Friendfeed Brighkite entries in the Friendfeed RSS stream to include "checked in" as a prefix
- or make the Friendfeed Facebook app pick the body of Brightkite entries instead of the subject.

For now, a Brightkite entry showed in Facebook via Friendfeed is confusing among the blogging and microblogging entries.

I mentioned this issue to Brightkite, and they acknowledge it - although they only promised to take a look at it. But the solution might rather be on the Friendfeed side.